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WASHINGTON — Connecticut has become ground zero of sorts for spurring development of smart guns that use technology to prevent accidental or unauthorized discharge of firearms, particularly by children.
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One hundred pastors, reverends and rabbis met in D.C. Thursday morning to brainstorm ways to help American mayors combat gun violence.
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Chicago puts out a list of the gun dealers whose weapons show up at crime scenes, and on Saturday activists demanded the city stop doing business with them.
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Once again, America faces an all-too-familiar narrative. A lone gunman, perhaps overcome by rage or insanity — or a toxic mixture of both — has murdered dozens of innocent people with the sort of rapid-firing weapons designed for military combat.
And once again, America also faces an all-too-familiar dilemma: What can be done to stop this bloodshed?
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Church leaders and parishioners packed the St Paul Community Baptist Church in East New York Thursday night not only to gather and pray but also as a call to action. The religious network East Brooklyn Congregations made a list of demands for their invited guest, Police Commissioner James O’Neil.
“We want guns out of our communities,” said Rev. Steven Carter of East Brooklyn Congregations.
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